C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.”
“Compassion, like any other leadership competency, can be learned.”
Source: Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results
“Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.”
“Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.”
“Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs the bonds of your personal limitations, and gives you deep access into the inner life of the character you study, without which you cannot properly prepare it for the stage”
Source: To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting
“Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.”
“Compassion may save your life.”
“Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Compassion means "with suffering" and involves entering into the suffering of another in order to lead the way out.”
Source: The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
“Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.”
“Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion needs strength, but with all limitations, compassion is my God, my strength, and my song of life.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion nourishes the wilted heart.”
Source: The Secrets of Pistoulet
“Compassion of Christ compel mankind to come to Him.”
“Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.”
Source: Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul
“Compassion permeates all the way to the farthest reaches of the Universe.”
“Compassion permeates all the way to the farthest reaches of the world.”
“Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”
Source: Compassion in action: setting out on the path of service
“Compassion removes the walls of mistrust and builds bridges of hope, trust and beliefs.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion requires that we take 100 percent responsibility for our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.”
Source: Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results
“Compassion = Respect & Happiness & Adoption & Commitment. & Peace = Self Worth & Respect" - it's more than enough to live and explore the unknowns”
“Compassion seems to be the greatest power.”
“Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.”
“Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.”
“Compassion simply stated is leaving other people alone.”
Source: Grist for the Mill: The Mellow Drama, Dying: An Opportunity for Awakening, Freeing the Mind, Karmuppance, God & Beyond
“Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.”
“Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.”
“Compassion takes imagination.”
“Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.”
Source: Junius: Stat nominis umbra
“Compassion transforms all suffering into wisdom and light.”
“Compassion, understandings and respects are the key elements of humanity. To grow means, to embrace all - there is no space for hatred, exclusion and discrimination.
To grow means more respect, more collaboration, more humanity, more integration and more support.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion views diversity as an opportunity.”
Source: Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results
“Compassion was the chief and perhaps only law of all human existence.”
“Compassion will lead you to extraordinary worlds your fear doesn't dare visit.”
“Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.”
Source: Awakening earth: exploring the evolution of human culture and consciousness
“Compassion without a commitment to justice is not compassion at all.”
“Compassion without accountability gets you nowhere. Accountability without compassion gets you alienated.”
Source: Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results
“Compassion without action is meaningless.”
Source: Faith Acts: A Provocative Call to Live What You Believe
“Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.”
“Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.”
“Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil”
“Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.”
“Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.”
“Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life”
“Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.”
“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”
Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer
“Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.”
Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life